Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reluctant to address any controversial legislation with Mayor Leonard I Russell and Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci visiting Cambridge's sister city in Japan, the members of the city government still in the country last night simply tabled important measures that arose...
...controversy centers on ships like the maroon-hulled Vulcanus I, a converted oil tanker, and its newer sister, Vulcanus II, which operate in the North Sea. Both of them are owned by Waste Management Inc., an Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed...
Inez's family, especially her outspoken sister Janet, makes a miniature of a comfortable colonial society, charming and eccentric at home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...
...into the woods and beat him up as revenge for double-dealing in a joint film project. Allen, a friend from youth, makes a homosexual pass and later tries to borrow $5,000. Even Lazar's rich Uncle Irving seems less interested in mourning his dead sister than haggling over the cost of her funeral: "This can't be the price . . . The cemetery isn't that far. If she was alive we could all walk there...
...spending several weeks in the Sahara also proved to have its fringe benefits--Herzberg received two marriage proposals. After helping remove Herzberg's jeep from a ravine, one gentleman wanted Herzberg to repay the favor by marrying his sister...